Lazar Hayward was one
offensive shining star as he collected his fifth double-double of the
season with 15 points and 10 rebounds.

The big story of the
night, however, was the spectacular defense of Jerel McNeal. He was all
over Brian Laing like white on rice. Laing has averaged 19 points a
game this season and McNeal kept him to just 6 points last night.

The
entire team seemed to get with the program near the end of the second
half (finally!) They held Seton Hall scoreless over the final five
minutes of the game and went on a 10-0 run to close the game.

All
of Seton Hall's big men were frustrated throughout the game and all
three ended up fouling out of the game. At one point, the announcers
ruminated that Seton Hall was running low on players. They speculated
that Seton Hall had just nine guys, with three already having fouled
out, leaving them with just one sub. _____

My biggest fear
with this Marquette team this season has been the inability to put
teams away. We have seen it happen over and over this season and it
always made me say the next day that we wouldn't be able to do that
against a "real" team because it would come back and bite us. Here we
are at the end of the regular season and Marquette's racked up a pretty
impressive record, are ranked in the top 25 and should be a solid
middle seed in the NCAA tournament. My fear, apparently, had no basis
in reality.

At work today we went over the many, many things
about this team that we don't understand/drive us nuts/we think will
eventually be the downfall of the team. Number one on this list is Dan
Fitzgerald. As far as I'm concerned, he's the embodiment of the Golden
Eagles' biggest fault: unfortunate and inappropriate shot selection. We
all know MU is a small team. Too many games we'd seem them attempt to
penetrate, get rebuffed by some big men and regress behind the 3-point
arc where we put up countless questionable triples that never had a
shot at going in.

I've never been able to figure out why MU
doesn't use their size to their advantage. We're going to bounce of the
defense's big men on our way to the basket and most times we're going
to draw the foul. We should be able to put two-to-three guys a game on
the bench in early foul trouble. Instead, we putz around on the outside
until there's only a few seconds on the shot clock and have to heave
something up. It's so frustrating!

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